Coronavirus

Ho Chi Minh City logged more than 3,500 domestic coronavirus cases on Wednesday, when over 5,300 infections were found in the community across Vietnam. The city reported 3,556 locally-infected patients, which is the second-biggest daily case increase this month, according to the Ministry of Health's data. It detected a record high of 4,692 infections on July 18. The southern Vietnamese economic hub has documented 41,343 since the nation was hit by the fourth and worst virus wave on April 27. The health ministry confirmed 36 coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday, including 32 in Ho Chi Minh City, two in Long An Province, and two in Dong Thap Province. The agency reported 5,357 local cases in 35 provinces and cities the same day, 1,081 of which were found in the community while the rest were in centralized quarantine centers or isolated areas. Binh Duong Province, an industrial park hub just outside Ho Chi Minh City, accounted for 964 of the infections. Dong Nai Province, …

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Vietnam adds nearly 2,967 locally-acquired coronavirus infections this morning Of 2,967 cases countrywide, some 2,965 cases were found in the community while two are imported cases. Ho Chi Minh City recorded 2,433 of the latest cases, Long An Province 233 cases, Binh Duong Province 64, Tien Giang Province 41, Dong Nai Province 53, Vinh Long 38, Ben Tre Province 28, An Giang Province 15, Hau Giang Province 5, Binh Phuoc Province 5 the Northern City of Hai Phong 3, the capital city of Hanoi 2, Son La Province 2, Quang Binh Province 2 and Thua Thien – Hue Province 1. Noticeably, the Central Province of Quang Binh has recorded two first contacts F1 who were brought to centralized isolation camps. As of today, Vietnam has a total of 71,144 Covid-19 cases including 2,101 imported cases whereas 69,043 cases were locally-transmitted cases. From April 27, the number of new Covid-19 patients has been 67,473 including 9,197 recoveries. Nine localities including Yen Bai, Quang Tri, …

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The rehab center is managed by the Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs but is placed in Phuoc Hoa Commune in Phu Giao District of Binh Duong that borders HCMC. The city will send a team of medics over to the rehab to treat all infected inmates, the department’s director Le Minh Tan told a city’s meeting on Wednesday. The cluster at this facility was firstly detected on July 17 when two staff suffered slight fever and headache. Rapid tests later showed them positive with coronavirus. The authorities then ran random tests among 34 other staff, and found 21 others positive. On Wednesday, the rest of 689 staff and inmates were tested, and the results arrived as positive for 450 inmates and 56 staff. Bo La is in charge of receiving, managing and educating drug addicts with serious convictions and inmates who had violated discipline at other rehab facilities in HCMC. The city's Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs is managing 12 drug …

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The Ministry of Health announced more than 6,000 domestic COVID-19 cases in Vietnam on Thursday, including over 4,000 locally-infected patients in Ho Chi Minh City. Thirty-six provinces and cities logged 6,164 local infections while another 30 were imported from abroad, the health ministry said. A total of 1,000 cases were found in the community whereas the remainder were detected in centralized quarantine facilities or isolated areas. Ho Chi Minh City recorded 4,218 of the latest domestic cases, Binh Duong Province 679, Long An Province 432, Dong Nai Province 210, and Dong Thap Province 117. Today’s locally-acquired infection rise is the biggest so far, after a record was set at 5,887 cases on July 18. Since the fourth COVID-19 wave began in Vietnam on April 27, Vietnam has documented 70,672 domestic cases in 61 out of 63 provinces and cities. Ho Chi Minh City sits atop the table with 45,561 patients, followed by Bac Giang Province with 5,733, Binh Duong Province with …

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Medical staff in Ho Chi Minh City have given their overworked colleagues in neighboring Binh Duong Province a helping hand by arranging COVID-19 treatment for 496 drug addicts and staff members at a rehab center. Le Minh Tan, director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs, reported at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon the COVID-19 situation at Bo La Rehab Center in Phu Giao District, Binh Duong. Bo La and 11 other rehabilitation centers situated in different southern localities are administratively managed by the Ho Chi Minh City social affairs department. According to Tan, medical authorities in Binh Duong detected the first two COVID-19 infections at Bo La Rehab Center on July 17. A mass testing session, using rapid test kits, conducted at the center on the next day discovered that 450 out of 607 drug addicts and 56 out of 82 staff members contracted the coronavirus. The management board of the center and local medical …

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Nguyen Tri Thuc, director of the Cho Ray Hospital and HCM City COVID-19 Rehabilitation Hospital, has outlined a coronavirus treatment strategy to help limit the development of serious symptoms and reduce pressure on medical facilities. A medical worker takes care of a serious coronavirus patient at HCM City COVID-19 Rehabilitation Hospital. — Photo courtesy of the hospital The strategy consists of four levels of treatment, and is based on the response used during the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Bac Giang Province. To avoid cases rising rapidly and reduce pressure on medical staff, doctors will intervene early, before the onset of more serious conditions associated with COVID-19. During the current coronavirus wave in HCM City, the daily number of new cases has been in the thousands. This has led to a 'four-level' treatment model being adopted at the HCM City COVID-19 Rehabilitation Hospital, located at HCM City Oncology Hospital No 2 in District 9, Thu Duc City. …

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The positive test results at Bo La Drug Rehabilitation Center were confirmed Thursday night, said Le Minh Tan, director of the HCMC Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs which manages the facility, Tien Phong newspaper reported. The center is in Phuoc Hoa Commune of Phu Giao District in Binh Duong that borders HCMC. Tan has requested HCMC People's Committee to send support to the center to maintain order. All positive cases are now being taken care of. A team of 21 doctors from Nhan Ai Hospital have been dispatched to the center to also create a field facility, said Tan, as cited by Tuoi Tre . The cluster first came to light on July 17 when two employees had a slight fever and headache, and a rapid test found them positive for the coronavirus. The center houses drug addicts with serious convictions and inmates who violated discipline at other rehab facilities in Ho Chi Minh City. HCMC labor department manages 12 rehab facilities with more than 14,000 people …

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Authorities on Phu Quoc Island off the southern Vietnamese province of Kien Giang are searching for direct contacts of the island’s first COVID-19 case during the current outbreak. The patient is N.T.D., a 27-year-old trucker from the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long, the Phu Quoc steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control confirmed on Thursday evening. D. transported asphalt from Ha Tien ferry dock, located in the namesake city in Kien Giang, to Kim Thuy Lam ferry dock on Phu Quoc on July 22. He then headed to S.O.S Phu Quoc Clinic, where he took a rapid COVID-19 test. After the result came back positive, D. was asked to undergo a confirmatory test at Phu Quoc Medical Center. The retest also returned positive. D. is the first local coronavirus infection to be recorded on Phu Quoc Island since the fourth transmission wave hit the country on April 27. The S.O.S Phu Quoc Clinic has been temporarily locked down and all staff members have been quarantined. The …

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HANOI -- Vietnam’s health ministry reported 7,968 coronavirus infections on Saturday, a record daily increase and up from Friday’s record of 7,307. More than two-thirds of the cases are in Ho Chi Minh City, the ministry said in a statement. After successfully containing the virus for much of the pandemic, the Southeast Asian country has been facing a renewed outbreak of the virus, with southern business hub Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding provinces accounting for most new infections. The ministry on Friday said it would extend a lockdown in the city until Aug. 1 and impose stricter restriction measures in the capital Hanoi from Saturday. The measures include a stay-home order, a ban on gatherings larger than two people and the suspension of public transport. The capital city on Saturday also suspended motorbike delivery services, including by companies such as ride-hailing firms Grab and GoJek, adding to its existing restriction measures. The National Assembly, the …

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PM urges tightened border control in wake of new local infection of COVID-19 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (standing) speaks at the meeting of the Government’s permanent members on July 25 (Photo: VNA) Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 25 ordered tightened management of border gates from the north to the south to prevent illegal entry, following the confirmation of the first locally infected case of COVID-19 in Vietnam after 99 days without community transmission of the coronavirus. Addressing a meeting of the Government’s permanent members in Hanoi, the PM applauded the seriousness and efforts by all-level authorities, sectors, and localities in concurrently fighting against the pandemic and developing the economy. However, he noted, some sectors and localities have been off guard and shown laxity in disease prevention and control after a long period of time without community transmission. Particularly, foreigners’ illegal entry into Vietnam has …

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